For all their economic clout, women continue to play a very limited role in corporate governance in California’s 400 largest public companies. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Last week, UC Davis released a study of the state of California women business leaders. The 8th annual UC Davis Study of California Women Business [...]
Posts Tagged "Women In The Boardroom"
Which Companies Support Women In Leadership Positions And In The Boardroom?
December 10, 2012 – 8:00 am
Why Are There A “Despicable” Number Of Women On Boards?
December 4, 2012 – 9:00 am
What gets Fran Maier, a member of the founding team of Match.com, riled up? The “despicable” number of women serving on boards and the conventional wisdom on why progress has been so slow. Fran Maier will be speaking at PITCH SF 2013 Conference on February 14 – get your early bird ticket here. By Jessica [...]
PITCH NYC 2012: Geraldine Laybourne (Founder, Oxygen Media) Talks About Starting Up Oxygen And Its Vision
November 14, 2012 – 3:26 pm
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition – By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, Oxygen Media founder Geraldine Laybourne talks about working out of the “Wild West”. “I built it the way a woman would build it. I built it with partnerships with cable operators.” Instead [...]
Kickstart Women On The Board – A Vision For The Future
October 25, 2012 – 6:00 am
Announcing a new Kickstarter book publishing project. By Deborah Grant (Author, Women On The Board) Women On The Board – A Vision For The Future is a 225-page book I wrote earlier this year in an effort to do something positive with the frustration I felt about seeing too few women in top positions of [...]
Women On Boards: The Way Forward
September 27, 2012 – 11:53 am
Why have so many business leaders been slow to take notice when women are absent from their company’s boards? By Richard Branson (Contributor, Live Mint & The Wall Street Journal) I recently watched 12 Angry Men — that classic 1957 film about a jury struggling to decide the fate of an 18-year-old man who has [...]
Women In The Boardroom: A Discussion On Leadership And Decision-Making
August 27, 2012 – 4:24 pm
Join Box Women’s Network for “Women of the Board” on September 11 in Palo Alto. By Clarissa Meily (Strategic Alliances Manager, Box) Successful corporate decision-making starts with a diversity of perspectives. The more diverse a company’s board of directors, the more likely they are to accurately reflect the employees, shareholders, and customers that their decisions [...]
This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Sara Weinheimer
August 22, 2012 – 8:00 am
Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors in our “This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like” series. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Los Angeles-based angel investor Sara Weinheimer finances women-led startups, with a keen interest in social media and cleantech. She has invested in about a dozen women-led companies through her participation [...]
Learning To Be A CEO (Create Your Own Network)
August 20, 2012 – 7:00 am
As a startup CEO, you gain an independent and important perspective on many of the key activities you do yourself by serving on another board. By Laura Yecies (CEO, SugarSync) There have been a couple of good posts recently about startup CEO’s serving on the boards of other startups. Brad Feld wrote one and Mark [...]
Zynga Adds Ellen Siminoff To Board Of Directors This Month (Women In The Boardroom)
August 3, 2012 – 10:22 am
Ellen Siminoff, founding executive at Yahoo!, joins the all-male board of social gaming company Zynga. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) From the successful Internet campaign to add Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to the all-male board of directors at the social networking giant (which happened after the company went IPO), to a steady [...]
Google’s Marissa Mayer Named New Yahoo! CEO
July 16, 2012 – 1:19 pm
Google’s first female engineer and employee #20 leaves for Yahoo’s chief executive position. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today it was announced that Google’s Vice President of Local Marissa Mayer has left Google for the top position at Yahoo! as CEO. Marissa Mayer will be CEO of Yahoo! effective tomorrow. She will [...]
